Fire in Australian savannas: From leaf to landscape

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-81

  Beringer, Jason ^a,b   Hutley, Lindsay B ^c   Abramson, David ^a   Arndt, Stefan K ^d   Briggs, Peter ^e   Bristow, Mila ^c   Canadell, Josep G ^e   Cernusak, Lucas A ^f   Eamus, Derek ^g   Edwards, Andrew C ^h   Evans, Bradley J ^h   Fest, Benedikt ^d   Goergen, Klaus ^i,j   Grover, Samantha P ^a,c   Hacker, Jorg ^k   Haverd, Vanessa ^e   Kanniah, Kasturi ^a,l   Livesley, Stephen J ^m   Lynch, Amanda ^a,n   Maier, Stefan ^c   Moore, Caitlin ^a   Raupach, Michael ^e   Russell Smith, Jeremy ^c   Scheiter, Simon ^o   Tapper, Nigel J ^a   Uotila, Petteri ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^j FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^k FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

ⁿ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^p FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

more..

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Climate feedbacks; Greenhouse gas exchange; Net ecosystem carbon balance; Savanna

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GRASSLAND;

AUSTRALIA; CARBON; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GRASSLAND; WATER;

EID: 84917675840     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12686     Document Type: Review

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